On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:55:31AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 03 mar 15, 15:31:10, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 04:07:45PM +0100, Unknown Crewman wrote: > > > > > I only agree that electioneering often is useless and chain of beacons > > > and Easter marches always are useless. > > > > What do you mean by useless? Probably 90% of what the human race does is > > "useless" > > Sturgeon's Law? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
First time I've heard of it. But after reading it I see that it's not on the lines which I was thinking of. For example, chasing a white ball round a special designated area, could very easily, in some people's eyes be considered useless. Driving round and round and round and round a special road for the purpose of driving round and round and round and round in wasting a lot of petrol, could very easily, in some people's eyes be considered useless. So I was just trying to get Mr Crewman's explanation of useless. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
